The law "On Veterinary Medicine": Regional Veterinary Service under the authority of the Rosselkhoznadzor will not give up

In the final version of the law "On Veterinary Medicine", adopted by the Ministry of Agriculture and the subordination of all the regional veterinary services Rosselkhoznadzor will not.

According to the newspaper "Kommersant", the drafters did not consider the most radical proposals Rosselkhoznadzor and its supporting market participants. Manufacturers and processors of meat and fish offered to return control of the Rosselkhoznadzor veterinary authorities of subjects of the Russian Federation (now under the governor), but the Ministry of Agriculture has kept the current system, in which the region is left is one of the major revenue collection.

initiative to translate the whole veterinary certification in electronic form, says "Kommersant", also found no support. The Ministry of Agriculture said that this can be done only after the introduction of the federal public information system in the field of veterinary medicine, which will be made in stages up to 1 January 2016.

It is also important that the bill has been excluded from the provisions of the gratuitous nature of the issuance of electronic veterinary certificates. "The cost of printing certificates only on a special stamp paper across the country exceeds, according to market participants, 55 billion rubles a year" - the newspaper writes.

The new version of the law "On Veterinary Medicine" The State Duma will discuss the fall, the project was coordinated by ministries and regulatory impact assessment. The current law "On Veterinary Medicine" was adopted in 1993 and did not reflect much of the realities of the market. It is assumed that the new law may come into force in 2014, but a number of items in it Transitional periods. The full extent of the law will work to January 1, 2017.